Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Stepping up to the mark

Jo really seems to be picking up the pace with her rehabilitation. Today's physiotherapy session saw Jo stand and walk with the zimmer frame, in itself an advancement on performing the same feats with the gutter frame, made all the more encouraging by the improvement in Jo's proficiency in performance.
Instead of dragging her left foot Jo was really stepping and placing it. Her left hand was also visibly doing some work holding onto the zimmer frame. It truly begins to feel as if real progress is beginning to be made.
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Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.